Category: War
Vecna BEAR robot.
Robot that will extract wounded troops from the battlefield. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 9th, 2006.
Graf Zeppelin.
Divers have discovered the wreckage of Germany’s only aircraft carrier from World War II. (via)
Post date: Friday, July 28th, 2006.
Yogic flying.
People are trying to build a shield of invincibility around Israel through transcendental meditation. (via)
Post date: Thursday, July 27th, 2006.
Personal powdered blood packs.
Freeze-dried blood being developed for battlefield transfusions that soldiers will carry in their personal supplies. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, July 25th, 2006.
H11.
British submarine from World War I discovered in deep water off the coast of Scotland. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, July 19th, 2006.
Shear thickening fluid.
Post date: Thursday, June 15th, 2006.
Unique Signature Detection Project.
DARPA-funded project that aims to develop technology for soldiers to identify high-level-of-interest persons by chemosignals emanating from body scent. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, June 6th, 2006.
Federal Excise Tax.
US Treasury Department has repealed a tax on long-distance phone calls that was created to fund the Spanish-American War of 1898. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 25th, 2006.
Project Tripwire.
Surveillance program that will monitor wild animals for signs of bioterrorism. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006.
Lord Sandwich.
Ship deliberately sunk by the British during the Revolutionary War discovered off the coast of Rhode Island. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 17th, 2006.
ASSIST.
Sensors which are designed to capture and record a soldier’s combat movements and encounters.
Post date: Wednesday, May 17th, 2006.
Old debts.
Britain to make final payment on money loaned from the United States during World War II.
Post date: Thursday, May 11th, 2006.
War is over.
Mexico to decriminalize possession of small amounts of drugs.
Post date: Monday, May 1st, 2006.
Holy Grail.
Archaeologists have discovered remains of the Knights of Templar in a castle dating back to the Crusades. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 11th, 2006.
MOSCAMED.
Rearing facility that sterilizes 2.7 billion medflies a week and air drops them back into the wild.
Post date: Tuesday, March 28th, 2006.
Cormorant.
Stealth jet that is launched from the missle tubes of nuclear submarines. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006.
RiVax.
Experimental vaccine is proving to be safe and effective in preventing ricin poisoning.
Post date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006.
Unidentified buried object.
Large unknown man-made metal object to be unearthed from a Georgia cemetery. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Acoustic swimmer denial system.
Sonar device targeting SCUBA-equipped terrorists causes severe gastic distress which makes the victim vomit in their mask. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Eternal City.
Plans discovered for Berlin to be rebuilt in the likeness of St. Peter’s Square after Hitler conquered the world. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Advanced Tactical Laser.
High energy laser that is able to produce ‘lethal and non-lethal effects on the battlefield and in urban operations‘. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 25th, 2006.
Kill ‘em all.
Secret British documents reveal Churchill wanted Hitler to be electrocuted, Ghandi to be starved. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 9th, 2006.
Pain ray.
Device that fires microwave-like beams which heat up the water inside a person and cause excruciating pain to be deployed to Iraq. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 22nd, 2005.
Hamoukar.
Mesopotamian city shows evidence of being destroyed by ‘large scale organized warfare‘
Post date: Friday, December 16th, 2005.
Ass-isting the effort.
Donkeys are being used as suicide bombers in Afghanistan. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, December 14th, 2005.
Once New Amsterdam.
Subway dig in New York City unearths Pre-Revolutionary War fort. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 8th, 2005.
Unknown soldier.
World War II pilot found frozen in glacier. (via) UPDATE: The body has been identified.
Post date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2005.
Aluminum oxynitride.
US Military is developing see-through aluminum armor. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 18th, 2005.
War on cancer.
Delaware researchers have created a bomb to destroy cancer cells. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 14th, 2005.
Will I get it?
Brazilian psychic is claiming that the United States owes him the $25 million reward for providing the hiding place of Saddam Hussein.
Post date: Friday, October 7th, 2005.
Hot Eagle.
The Air Force and DARPA are studying options for a reusable space vehicle that could place a squad of Marines halfway across the globe within 2 hours. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 19th, 2005.
Live munitions: Part III.
Workers find WW2-era explosive at Moscow hotel.
Post date: Monday, July 11th, 2005.
Budgetary oversight?
Apparently, we who have telephones are still funding the Spanish-American War. (via)
Post date: Monday, June 20th, 2005.
Stiff neck.
So that’s why that kink in my neck just never seemed to go away.
Post date: Tuesday, June 14th, 2005.
Unconfirmed.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have been killed this past weekend in Fallujah.
Post date: Thursday, June 9th, 2005.
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